Indeed! Our church had a lovely basket full of blessed chalk and papers with instructions on how to bless our homes.
We have been robbed of a lot of our heritage. After Vatican II it feels like they've thrown the baby out with the bath water.
I don't think you're wrong. In some places the evil is so pronounced it seems to condition people who do not have that firm foundation. All we can do is keep praying. But to watch it is very disspiriting.
I notice several homes near mine have the Divine Mercy at their front doors, as have I. It warms the heart. It reminds me of the piece in Exodus were they placed the blood of the lambs on the Lintel of houses to deter the angel of death come to take the first born. It's not just the Virus, it's that people have turned so irrational, mad, really and violent. I also wear a Sacred Heart image on my overcoat for protection. Exodus 12:23 When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
Oh, yes. Along with Holy Water and Blessed Salt, you use Blessed Oil to bless the lintels of your doors, using the oil to trace a cross on them for blessing. You can also use the Blessed Oil to anoint your children, and (in some cases I know of) pouring a small amount onto wounds to speed their healing.
https://straphaeloil.com/ The late Father Whalen started this ministry and his workers have continued on. I use St. Raphael Healing Oil often. Available for a small donation.
We also gave St. Faustina blessed oil to my MIL to anoint my FIL on his deathbed. She'd never done anything like that so we walked her through it, and it seemed to be of tremendous comfort to her. A priest was called several times but no one would get back to us. This was before I was familiar at all with our FSSP parish and the emergency number for calling them out to give Extreme Unction. In our experience it's been so difficult to get a hold of Novus Ordo priests for Anointing of the Sick, which is really a travesty. Anyway, thanks be to God my FIL had just obtained the plenary indulgence for Divine Mercy Sunday a couple weeks before he died. But we did our best, anointing him with oil, sprinkling him and his bed with Epiphany water, and placing blessed St. Joseph, St. Benedict and Miraculous medals and a scapular in his hands and around his neck. We figured you can't have too many sacramentals on your person in the final fight for your dying soul. I hope it was of great spiritual help and comfort to him, unconscious as he was. I think it's so important to have a solid arsenal of sacramentals in our homes and on our persons, ready for all occasions.
